Arthur's POV
I slammed my fist against the steering wheel of my car, curses spewing from my mouth. Nothing ever goes as I planned. How could this have happened? I had spent weeks planning this operation, and yet there I was, staring at a pile of ashes, with not a single thing to show for it.
I got to my mansion and I shouted at the men in the room, letting out all my rage and frustration. I cursed them inappropriately for their incompetence, for their lack of foresight, for their lack of loyalty.
My voice was filled with venom as I bellowed out my orders. All of them knew that they would be in danger because I was in a bad mood and as such, they all maintained themselves. I vowed to make the Scott family pay, Sebastian especially, he would regret killing my parents; he would regret making my sister and me orphans.
My voice grew quieter as I watched my men scurry away, a trail of fear in their wake. I had made my point, but it was not enough. I wanted more than just words. I wanted action. I wanted retribution. I sat in my chair, my breathing heavy, my thoughts dark. I had been manipulated by Sabastian Scott and I was determined to get my revenge. I would not rest until I had exacted my retribution. I would make that family pay, one way or another. He killed my family and I would make sure they would never forget it.
I stepped into the back of the mansion, my boots echoing off the walls. My men followed after me, their eyes wide with anticipation. I was in no mood for games. I walked into the garden and saw the plants and flowers so unkempt.
"What the hell is going on here?!" I barked, my voice reverberating off the walls. The men in front of me cowered. They knew better than to cross me. I took in the scene before me, trying to make sense of what had gone wrong. "Who's responsible for this?!" I demanded. My men all looked at each other, none of them daring to answer. I took a step closer, my hands clenched into fists.
"I said, who's responsible?!" I yelled, my voice echoing off the walls.
Finally, one of my men spoke up. "It was Frankie, boss," he said, his voice trembling. I shook my head in disbelief. Frankie had been one of my most trusted men, and now he had betrayed me.
"Where is he now?" I asked, my voice low and dangerous.
"He's gone, boss," the man answered. "His wife is seriously ill, so he had to run off to meet her and to take care of her."
I cursed loudly, my anger bubbling over. How dare he leave my mansion without my permission? He would pay for his insolence. I turned to my men and barked out orders. "Find him!" I ordered.
"Find him and bring him to me. I want to know why he would leave without seeking my permission and worse leave my garden unkempt."
My men nodded in agreement and scrambled to do my bidding. I watched them go, my fury seething inside me. No one crossed me and got away with it. I would make sure of that. Frankie had just made a big mistake, and since I was in a bad mood, he was going to receive a deserving punishment. I was sure of it.
I was pissed at myself because not only did Sebastian Scott escape, I had failed to get my revenge. I had failed to avenge the death of my parents. Unfortunately, Frankie is the scapegoat that I would vent my anger on.
I went back inside the mansion to check on Iris. I opened the door and I met her with one of the maids; Yuri. Yuri had helped her freshen up and had given her food to eat since we hit back. I had given all my staff strict orders to not let Iris out of her room, let alone out of the mansion.
We have not had the opportunity to talk since I brought her into my house so I decided to have one with her. "Yuri," I called out, "Leave us."
She bowed her head as she exited the room.
"Why are your legs on my bed? Do you think you're in your burnt mansion!" I snapped.
"I'm… I'm so sorry sir," she answered and struggled to position her leg on the blue marbled titles.
"Why did your family leave you in the fire?" I went straight to the point, I had no strength to play pity parties nor did I have the strength for chit-chat.
She let out a deep breath and started, "My birth mother died while birthing me. My father, Sabastian Scott, loved her so much and he blamed me for her death. My father remarried but my stepmother and her children don't like me either. I was cooking in the kitchen for them when the fire happened. I did not notice it at first but when the food was ready, I went to the living room to inform my step siblings and that was when I saw the fire. They had left already and I guess they just forgot me in the fire. I would have died if you had not rescued me. Maybe they caused the fire themselves, who knows?" She explained, telling me her life story which I was in no way interested in.
I scoffed. She thought I was her lifesaver? The hell. If she had any idea how I wanted her dead, maybe she would try to respect me. The only thing I couldn't understand was why her father hated her or why he would leave her to die while he fled away. What a nuisance!
Well, that wasn't my business, all I know is that I'm going to use the poor girl as bait for him and he would be back begging at my feet. She was innocent but I have no pity.
"Know one thing I am not your lifesaver"I said walking out of the room in anger.Iris POVThe bang in my head was quite deafening and I shifted on the bed to attend to whoever had entered the room. Arthur, as called by people around him, had given me lots of warnings, and giving an immediate answer was part of them.The presence I felt seemed familiar and I spoke up. "Yuri?" I called out to confirm if she was the one."Arthur," his hoarse flat voice rang through my head and I flinched at it. Although he saved me, he doesn't behave like he did. It was as if he had done something bad to save me or he was just so ruthless and never cared if he was scaring people or not."Hello," I greeted to avoid complaint. I blindly reached for my nightgown because I was not sure of the length of my nightwear.I heard him let out a grunt. "Don't worry, it's long enough," He told me and I could feel my cheeks heating up.I lowered my head when I felt he was already closer to me. I felt so embarrassed to blush in front of him."Have you gone for a medical test for your eyes before?"
Iris POV "Let's go in. " Arthur said again but this time, I could feel that it wasn't Arthur holding my hand anymore and that strangely sour my mood. I walked alongside the person that held my hand while Arthur walked behind us, muttering something to the man in a code that I did not understand but I wasn't ready to understand either as I already had a lot to think about and I did not want more. "Can I really forget about that day?" Was the question that kept troubling my mind and I was frustrated. "Leave the room, I want to speak with her. " I heard Arthur said to the men in the room and I wondered why. I was helped to a seat before the men left the room and I heard the sound of a seat being pulled before Arthur sat across me. He was so close to me that I could clearly perceived his scent and it made my inside churn with weirdly. As a girl that never had intimacy with any guy before, I expected myself to be shy and scared but... It was the complete opposite!
Iris povI didn't know what I was thinking when I interlocked my lips with his own. All I knew was that it felt so right that every other thought was shot out of my mind like a speeding bullet and my only focus was on his plump juicy lips wrapping around my own.Since I had never been with a man before, the closest I ever came to kissing was when my lips would press against a pillow imagining what it would be like to actually kiss.And now it had now been strapped into the wangon of reality and it was far more amazing than I could have ever imagined.But then it was all interrupted when suddenly there is a hard knock on the door that sent both of us jumping away from each other I thought that I was going to fall off the bed and suddenly I felt his wrist and my hand holding me back but this time I wasn't landing on his chest again and I ached to feel the warmth that was there.Even if he didn't bring me back to his chest I noticed that you didn't stick his hand over him as he conversed
Arthur POV"Ugh!" I groaned in frustration as I sent my pillow flying across the room, bitterness rising up my throat and coming through my lips as hardened curses against that bastard that called himself Sebastian Scott. I still remember those bitter cold nights, taking care of my sister and sometimes my small body as a child and I would shake so hard watching my hatred for the man mount every single day. Despite all my careful planning he had still escaped. I sat on my king size bed and ran my fingers through my hair, trying to calm myself down. He wasn't going to escape not anymore but for now I needed to be a little bit patient. After all, I had waited my entire life to end this man…just a little bit longer. As I began to steady I closed my eyes, pulling in to make my entire body relax and the moment I closed my eyes the only issue of a frail body with sharp blue eyes penetrated my thoughts and I immediately opened my house.Darn it!How can a bastard like Sebastian even have
Iris POV I was surprised when he allowed me to speak, now I had expected him to just cut me off but to my great surprise he actually seemed inquisitive about what u had to say. "Well, what is it?...get it out!"He snapped in such a cold voice that I felt shivers shoot all over my body instantly and I almost froze up in that instant.Recovering from how he yelled at me, I finally managed to speak."I was thinking that…maybe you can call him and tell him that I'm trying to elope…or something like that…"In my head this plan had sounded so cool but now that I was saying it to this cold man I suddenly felt so stupid and he didn't fail to tell me just how stupid I sounded."Did you really come all the way here…to say THAT?!"If his voice had rose by a single decible then I would have leaped off my seat in an instant because of the mere shock of it, did he have to be this way?I just gave a suggestion if it was no good then he could just tell me instantly but instead he would rather make
Iris POV"...You are so disgusting…no man in his right mind would ever want to be with you…" My father said this to me heatedly one Sunday afternoon my offence was that I had tripped and shattered a glass of wine that I was supposed to delivered during dinner. I thought that my short miserable life was going to come to an end on that day as my father's eyes were burning with fury and anger while the rest of my step family were egging him on. An apology tried to escape my lips but before I could even manage to see that he immediately slapped me across the face and began to pour curses on me one after another as if it was a heavy rain that was beaten down against me.He told me that I would never be useful in life and when he felt that he had run out of insults he began to say things that he didn't even make any sense at all including the one that no man will ever want me. I was used to soaking my pillow with tears but that night I couldn't even cry pain was so much that tears alo
Arthur POV "Did I go too far?" I asked myself as I sat on my bed and my mind quickly replayed something that had happened just a moment ago, did I really go too far? No I didn’t She was becoming far too cosy with me for no reason I had to remind her that she was just the daughter of my enemy and I despise her just as much as I despised the man which lungs she came from, it didn't matter to me jackshit if she was innocent so what, I was innocent to so was my sister and yet that bastard Sebastian Scott ended our parents lives heartlessly. Infact my revenge will not be complete if I didn't scare her the same way my sister and I were scarred 15 years ago. Compared to the way we suffered she had not experienced anything at all, some nights both me and my sister will chat and make up silly stories because there was nothing to eat in fact that was most nights but sometimes it got so bad that it felt as if our internal organs were getting feasted on because of the hunger that we were
Iris POV Slowly but steadily I began to regain my consciousness, it was a gradual process but eventually I was becoming aware of myself again the first thing I felt was the ache around my entire body and this time I only had to search for my sight for a couple of seconds before the memory that I could no longer see came back again crossing my heart wickedly like a sharp knife. I had lived my entire life being able to see colors and the world around me and all of a sudden that ability was snuffed away. I was still getting used to it, but maybe I will never really get used to it but just come to a forceful acceptance that it was gone forever. Soon I remembered that my entire body aches and I couldn't even move a single inch because of how much it hurts. How long had that flight of stairs been? I couldn't see but I felt like I had fallen quite a lot. Maybe I should cry out for help? even my voice just cracked before I could speak and so I just lay there maybe it was better this wa